netdev - Re: modpost warning question

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Message-ID: <20070725075205.GC24093@uranus.ravnborg.org>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:52:05 +0200
From:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>,
	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: modpost warning question

> >
> >For the popular architectures (i386,x86_64) we discard .exit.text at
> >runtime so here we do not see the error from ld (sadly).
> 
> Fair point, wondering what we do with .exit on PPC, another thing for  
> the list :)

from:
arch/ppc/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S:
  /* .exit.text is discarded at runtime, not link time,
     to deal with references from __bug_table */
  .exit.text : { *(.exit.text) }

	Sam
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